واپسی
وہ شخص اک مدت بعد لوٹا
جب مہجور رات کی خاموش پہنائیوں میں
پلکوں کی چلمنیں تھک کر گر چکی تھیں
آنکھوں کے منتظر دَر بند ہو چکے تھے
دل کے طاقچے میں انتظار کا چراغ بجھ چکا تھا
دھویں کی پرچھائیاں ڈرا رہی تھیں
امید کا چاند ڈھل چکا تھا
تنہائی بین کر رہی تھی
خواب ٹھوکریں کھا رہے تھے
ہر چیز علم بغاوت لہرا چکی تھی
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Islam is a complete code of life. It provides injunctions for every field of life. In economics it not only provides us details in finance and trade but also provides us information about "Halal & Haram". Needless to emphasize that economy plays an important role in the development of nation and financial matters cannot be ignored if development is a target. According to Islamic teachings all earnings must be lawful. Generally, new ways are being adopted to increase and generate wealth. Islam encourages to get more wealth and profit but no illegal means should be adopted for that. All kinds of fraud and unfair means while doing business must be avoided. Islam lays stress on using lawful and valid means in all economic activities. Scholars of Sub-continent have different opinions about the prevailing prize money schemes. Some scholars consider them lawful regarding some aspects but majority term them unlawful.
Intertextuality: (RE) Interpreting Dante's Inferno and the Postmodern World in Gaiman's Season of Mists The study is built upon the belief that an act of creation does not take place in isolation, especially for a writer, who is inevitably linked equally with the age and time to which he belongs, as well as to the past. Gaiman’s work is part of the postmodern scenario as the world he creates is a response to the postmodern norms and characteristics, which propagated the idea of meaning being unstable and multiple. The study is a comparative analysis, through the lens of intertextuality, of Dante’s The Inferno with the Graphic Novel series The Sandman Vol. 4 ‘Season of Mist’. The research questions that guide the analysis are to compare the selected works in terms of how the classic is transmuted into the current with the aim to highlight the prevalent themes of the postmodern era and the shape given to them in the selected work. The theoretical framework based on the hermeneutic circle and the theory of intertextuality has been utilized to explore what this still new and emerging form of the graphic novel contributes to narrative representation, and the understanding its readers can gain about the contemporary world from works that are both verbal and visual. It attempts to highlight how the social and the fantastic meet to create an intertextual referential framework that can help us in understanding the world within which we live. Riddled with references to other literary or popular texts, Gaiman’s works create meaning based on the knowledge he possesses as writer and creator, and in light of the age to which he belongs. The study attempts to frame within the present moment and the increasing accessibility of this new literary and popular genre, how the graphic novel has become part of an expanding literary field of contemporary fiction and its contribution to narrative representation by explaining the visual and the verbal modes.